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Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance

Seed control

At the invitation of the Federal Ministry of Food and
Agriculture of the Federal Republic of Germany experts of the Rosselkhoznadzor
will visit Germany on March 2 -11, 2016 for joint inspection of the seed potato
and planting material consignments prepared for export to the Russian
Federation.

The Rosselkhoznadzor’s specialists completed their visit to
the Netherlands and Italy aimed at the pre-dispatch inspection of seed potato
and plant for planting consignments destined for export into the Russian
Federation on March 14, 2015.

From December 8 to 12, 2014 the Rosselkhoznadzor experts visited Italy to carry out the inspection of planting materials to be exported to Russia. During the visit the Rosselkhoznadzor experts carried out control of nursery transplants declared for export and took samples for tests to be conducted in the laboratory subordinated to the Rosselkhoznadzor.

Following agreements achieved between the Federal Service
for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance and the national plant protection
organizations of Finland, Germany and the Netherlands, the Rosselkhoznadzor
paid visits in November –December to the abovementioned countries with the
purpose to inspect seed potatoes prepared for dispatch to the Russian
Federation.

Upon the invitation of the Central Phytosanitary Service of
the Italian Republic the Rosselkhoznadzor specialists will visit Italy with the
aim to monitor consignments of plants for planting destined for export from
Italy into the Russian Federation on December 8 – 12, 2014.

According to agreements between the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance and the Food Safety Authority of the Republic of Finland (EVIRA) a visit of the Rosselkhoznadzor official delegation in Finland took place during a period from 25 to 27 November 2014 with the aim to inspect the arranged for shipment in the Russian Federation seed potato.

The Rosselkhoznadzor informs that
the following organizations have applied so far to the Rosselkhoznadzor for
import of seed potatoes from the EU: OOO “Solana-Agro-Service”, OOO “Norika-Slavia”,
OOO “Agrolipetsk”, “H-Z-P-C Sadokas”.

Alexander Isayev, Head of the
Department for Phytosanitary Surveillance and Grain Quality of the
Rosselkhoznadzor, Maxim Gninenko, Deputy Head of the Department for
Phytosanitary Surveillance and Grain Quality of the Rosselkhoznadzor, on
the
Russian party, and Alexander Romanovich,
Deputy Director of the Main State Inspection on Seed-Breeding,
Quarantine and
Plant Protection of the Republic of Belarus, Alexander Pavlovich, Deputy
Director of the Inspection on Plant Quarantine, Alexander Piskun, Head
of Department for Internal and External Quarantine of the Main State
Inspection on
Seed-Breeding, Quarantine and Plant Protection of the Republic of
Belarus, on
the Belarusian party, participated in the negotiations.

The congress was held from 12-18 June this year in Antalya,
Turkey. Experts from a number of federal governmental budgetary institutions
subordinated to the Rosselkhoznadzor, i.e. from the Krasnodar Interregional
Veterinary Laboratory, the Orenburg Reference Centre of the Rosselkhoznadzor,
the Belgorod and Bryansk Interregional Veterinary Laboratories, took part in
the Congress.